p05129
Responses from p05129
| What makes One Music Server Sound Better than Another? Fiber is always the best connection possible, much better than usb for sound quality. ‘Fiber's resistance to magnetic interference makes transmissions nearly noise free, and it has the advantage of better signal quality’. if your Ethernet connect... | |
| Better than Usher Dancer Mini-X DMD? If you want more bass, move the speakers closer to the front wall. | |
| Integrated Curiosity Get a Hegel 360 or 390, skip the 190 | |
| Revel Salon2s: Seeking Advice Get the Revel salons. 1 of the best speakers you can buy for anywhere near the price and many times more. All Focals have no bass until you get up into the Utopia line. Any Focal less than the Utopia will need a sub. Even with the Utopia’s, I woul... | |
| Mid-Fi, Hi-Fi or.....? I took a friend to CES/The SHOW about 20 years ago. He told me I was crazy spending $50k or more on an audio system. He thought it couldn’t get much better than his $2000 system and he thought he couldn’t hear that well. After the 1st room, he ha... | |
| Thank Heavens For The Internet World Used/ Pre-Owned High End Audio Market!!!! I have bought and sold gear all over the world. Watch out, there are a lot of traps/gotchas when selling worldwide. There is no tracking equipment once it leaves the states, so make sure you are paid with no returns, the buyer overseas takes the r... | |
| Why do I prefer R2R over Chip based DAC's? I much prefer fpga based dacs. Numerous reasons: sound great, software updatable, more easily handle the hires or dsd files. | |
| Ken Fritz article Carlsbad2 - couldn’t agree with you more, especially your opening sentence. You can tell who is successful in their life and who isn’t. Here are some quotes that I feel successful people resemble; Success often requires sacrifice and discomfort;... | |
| Tidal FLAC vs. Qobuz I used to be with tidal and loved it with MQA. Tidal also has more of the newer music (jazz, blues, prog rock, hard rock, new age) than Qobuz. But the BB/tidal fiasco sent me over to Qobuz. After converting all of my music over, I have some albums... | |
| Your greatest high end audio purchase!!! Been doing this since the early 70’s. Those Revels are keepers IMO. my biggest expenses have been 4 custom audio rooms, a couple of them based on Rives Audio designs and 1 using feedback from Cardas, and copied 1 design from a hifi+ reviewer. Now... | |
| Did your system getting better the more money you spent or more experience you gained? Somebody that has a limited budget on these threads always thinks that he has magical insights into being an audiophile that others don’t have, which is far from the truth. I know many people (in audio clubs and in virtual settings) that have mone... | |
| Tidal FLAC vs. Qobuz It’s been a while since I did this. When I signed up for Qobuz, Qobuz asked if I needed to convert from tidal and when I said yes, they gave me access to this program. I’ll see if I can find this program. | |
| Tidal FLAC vs. Qobuz I converted from tidal to Qobuz earlier this year. I still think MQA sounded better than flax on Qobuz. I also think that tidal has more music that I like: prog rock, jazz, blues, rock, jazz. I used the free program when I went to Qobuz that used ... | |
| Is toeing speakers a bad idea? With a large room, why are you placing the speakers 3’ from the wall? When I had a room this size, speakers were 9’ from the front wall. | |
| Building a dedicated listening room I’ve built multiple dedicated audio rooms in my latest custom houses. The best room was a room inside another room to get the ideal dimensions. The whole house had closed cell spray foam insulation (the attic in the south during the summers never ... |